1. Activities by Mary Erickson Ph.D., with Arizona art teacher Marissa Vidrio Introduction to Printmaking

2. Laura Álvarez The Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive,1999, serigraph (#45 of 56) Artists make prints by drawing or carving a surface, putting ink on the surface and pressing paper into that surface. The surface can be used again to make another print. Ester Hernández Libertad (Liberty), 1987 Etching (#36 of 50)

3. Printmaking is a way to make one or multiple original artworks. This is a printmaking press.

4. 1) cutting into a metal plate with tools or acid 2) rolling ink onto the plate 3) finally, running the plate and a piece of paper through a press. An etching is a kind of print made by:

5. The photo on the left shows a close-up of a metal plate. The photo on the right is a print made by rolling white ink on the plate, cleaning the ink off the top surface, placing a piece of black paper over the plate and running it through a press. The press pulls the ink from the plate onto the paper and makes a reversed image.

6. “Custom Service” is an etching by Tony Ortega. He cut lines into a metal plate, used ink and a press to print black lines on top of a U.S. Customs form. After the black lines were printed, he hand colored the print with watercolors. Tony Ortega Custom Service etching, watercolor

7. A woodcut print is made by: 1) carving into the surface of a block of wood 2) rolling ink on the surface 3) laying a piece of paper over the block 4) applying pressure to make the print.

8. An artist makes a lithograph by drawing with an oily crayon on a piece of limestone (or other appropriate surface). The stone surface is covered with a liquid so only the crayon marks are exposed. Then oil-based ink is rolled on the surface sticking only to the drawing. A piece of paper is laid over the stone, which is run through a press to make the print.

9. A silkscreen print, or serigraph, is made by blocking out sections of a piece of mesh fabric (such as silk or other synthetic fabrics) stretched in a frame. The printmaker uses a squeegee to force thick ink through the unblocked areas of fabric onto a piece of paper placed under the screen. (A serigraph print is not reversed.)

10. Artist Laura Álvarez made this print using a serigraph printing technique. How many colors can you identify? Each color was made with a separate screen. Laura Álvarez The Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive serigraph, 1999

11. Why do you suppose some artists choose printmaking, rather than drawing or painting, when they want to communicate their feelings or ideas to lots of people?

12. Special Thanks Jean Makin and the Jules Heller Print Study Room at the Arizona State University Art Museum for the use of printmaking props to help make this presentation.